Account Names

[Yawar Amin]

Sorry, meant to send that to the list.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or even Balance Forwards?
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> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM, David Ryder <davaweb at bigpond.net.au>wrote:
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>> Is there some insurmountable reason the account can not be called "BF
>> Bal" or similar?
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 14:34 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > "Colin Scott" <gnucash at double-bars.net> writes:
>> >
>> > > The problem with your solution is that "B/F Bal" is going to be
>> clearly
>> > > understood by anyone reading the accounts, whereas "B-F Bal" could
>> mean
>> > > pretty much anything.  When programming this sort of stuff, sanity
>> > > checking the input is absolutely fundamental, and this includes
>> ensuring
>> > > that the input contains only the permitted character set.  If the
>> > > character *is* accepted then it should just work, like any other
>> > > character.  Either way, the reported behaviour is a bug.
>> >
>> > Which input do you sanitize?
>> >
>> > The problem here is that you can create an account with a special
>> > character that's perfectly legal and then later change your separator
>> > character to that same character you used earlier.
>> >
>> > Feel free to send in a patch that does a full recursive account name
>> > character check prior to allowing the user to change the directory
>> > separator...
>> >
>> > > Colin
>> >
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>> > -derek
>> >
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